Mrs Hoare
(1786-1887)
25 April 1861

Volume 3, page 146, sitting number 3268.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks only as ‘Mrs Hoare,’ this is probably the wife of Henry Charles Hoare.]

Born on 6 November 1786, Anne Penelope Ainslie was the daughter of Lieutenant-General George Ainslie. 

She married firstly Captain John Prince on 30 April 1817. He died, aged 27, two months before the birth of his only child, Mary Ann Caroline Prince. 

On 6 October 1821 the widowed Mrs Prince married secondly Henry Charles Hoare, son of Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, 3rd Baronet. This marriage produced four more daughters and an only son, Sir Henry Hoare, 5th Baronet. 

Mrs Hoare appears on the 1851 census living at Wavendon House in Buckinghamshire with her husband and her children, including Miss Prince, the child of her first marriage. 

Mrs Anne Penelope Hoare died on 31 March 1887 at 9 St James’s Square, London. She was 100 years old.

‘Mrs Anne Penelope Hoare, widow of Mr Henry Charles Hoare, banker, of Fleet-street, and Wavendon, Bucks, died on Wednesday at her residence, 9, St-James’s-square, in her 101st year’ (The Globe, 1 April 1887). 

‘Mrs Anne Penelope Hoare, mother of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, Bart., died on the 30th ult., at her residence in St James’s-square, London, in her 101st year. The deceased lady was born in 1786, and married first, on April 30, 1817, Captain John Prince, of the Coldstream Guards. Mrs Prince married, secondly, on October 6, 1821, Mr Henry Charles Hoare, the banker, of 37 Fleet Street, second son of Sir Henry Hoare, Bart. Her son, Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare (born April 14, 1824) succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle in 1857. One of the deceased lady’s surviving daughters, Miss Georgiana Sophia Hoare, is, according to “Debrett,” sister superior of St Alban’s Mission, London’ (Edinburgh Evening News, 5 April 1887. 

Mrs Hoare left an estate valued at £3864.